WION ‘Game Plan’: Russia-Ukraine War | Will Russia Allow EU Boots On Ground?

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WION ‘Game Plan’: Russia-Ukraine War | Will Russia Allow EU Boots On Ground?

I present here the link to yesterday’s conversation with Shivan Chanana, anchor on the Indian broadcaster WION with whom I have had numerous conversations in the past and whom I greatly respect.

I use this video to make a point on how the game is played between broadcaster and invited specialist if you have your wits about you and enjoy cat and mouse games.

Viewers will notice that the introductory words of the presenter are repetitive. That is because our interview was interrupted and their production team had to start over.  Viewers will also note that I twice evaded the host’s opening question about what the Security Guaranties for Ukraine would look like.  This is not because I was hard of hearing but because I had other plans for what messages I wanted to deliver to the audience and especially to hammer home my view that Team Trump has done very well in the peace talks to obtain its fixed objectives while neutralizing its opponents, domestic and foreign, by saying what they want to hear while doing what it wants to do.

One Commenter on yesterday’s other Indian interview, with Firstpost, wrote that he would send me a MAGA hat for what I was saying. No, I am not a supporter of MAGA as such. But I am ready and willing to toss a bouquet in the direction of Team Trump when I believe they are doing something skillful and praiseworthy.

Let me be perfectly clear:  the contract between interviewer and interviewee seems to give all benefit to the broadcaster while the interviewee is just a resource.  However, it does not have to play out that way. The interviewee can use the microphone and air time to his or her own advantage as well.

Enjoy the show!

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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One thought on “WION ‘Game Plan’: Russia-Ukraine War | Will Russia Allow EU Boots On Ground?”

  1. The obvious answer to the question of will the “coalition of the wankers” put boots on the ground?

    Is what boots!? The militaries of these countries are pitiful husks, and they’ve continued to shrink since 2022.

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